Thursday's Best Bet: The Felice Brothers in concert

View full sizeProvided photo The Felice Brothers perform Thursday, April 26, at The Westcott Theater in Syracuse.

The Felice Brothers learned in New York City Subway

In 2006, brothers Ian and James Felice went underground.

That’s when the brothers from Palenville, in the Catskill Mountains, went south with three longtime friends into the New York City subway system to play for captive crowds.

Their blend of folk, roots, rock and soul took off so much that they have three records to their credit, including last year’s release, “Celebration, Florida.”

“What separates The Felices’ mud-stomping folk from that of their peers is their no-winking honesty — the sense that these songs and the places and people they’re singing about aren’t literary devices but actual people doing their damnedest to rage against the growing darkness,” writes the Filter Good Music Guide.